Sentence examples for coast dock from inspiring English sources

Like many consumer stocks, Mattel dipped last fall on fears that the West Coast dock strike would ruin holiday sales.

Last month, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents West Coast dock workers, quit the A.F.L.-C.I.O., complaining that the federation was not paying enough attention to it and had not stopped another union from raiding it.

In towns and ports all along the coast, docks and jetties have vanished into splinters.

It is no exaggeration to say that the union, and not local government, controls the West Coast docks.

A brief strike by west-coast dock workers in 2002 caused logjams that threatened to push the economy back into recession.Happily, further north up the west coast, the port of Tacoma has begun a five-year, $321m expansion to service more of the Chinese container trade.

North from the Schicke Point community, the El Campo Club community is found, with several residences on a straight line along the coast with docks stretched into the water.

In those days, it was the practice of trading vessels to stick close to the coast, and to dock every three or four days.

Bismarck, also damaged, ordered her consort to proceed independently while she headed for the French port of St Nazaire, which was the only port on the Atlantic coast with a dry dock able to accommodate a ship of her size.

The targets for the two airships which did make it to the Scottish coast were probably the docks at Rosyth and the fleet moored in the Forth.

High waves along the coast prevented boats from docking.

A flotilla of ships — filled with cars, electronics, clothes and other goods from Asia — have anchored off the coast waiting for the docks to clear.